Citizens' manuals
The continuing struggle for an adequate symbolic rendering of the new regime's legitimacy, despite the uncertain outcome of the revolution, is the context in which one should consider the issuing of the Manual for Citizens by the Department of the Interior in 1936. This publication aimed at providing people with an understanding of the new regime and its claim to political legitimacy A brief exposition of two versions of the manual follows. One was issued in 1936 at a time when the royalist threat remained, although diminished The second, a revised manual, issued in 1948, appeared when the royalis influence was again being felt both in public discourse and in political circles. Thousands were distributed to the provinces for the edification of officials and literate local notables. As official publications, they present the state orthodoxy of the time. In the first manual, Siam is said to no longer be an absolute monarchy but a system of democracy, which is described as a "government of the citizens and by the citizens [phonlameuang] so rawing on, but reworking, the familial metaphor of the nation propagated by Vajiravudh, the nation is described as "one big family'.81 Readers are told that the security of the nation is in the minds of each person. In a revised edition, published a year later, a rationale for the manual is given: In every country that has government in accordance with constitutional democracy the people have a duty to study and know their rights and duties so as to be able to act as a good citizens. 82 The manual, the reader is informed, was therefore published to assist citizens to be "persons who love the nation, religion, king and constitution' 83
คู่มือประชาชน The continuing struggle for an adequate symbolic rendering of the new regime's legitimacy, despite the uncertain outcome of the revolution, is the context in which one should consider the issuing of the Manual for Citizens by the Department of the Interior in 1936. This publication aimed at providing people with an understanding of the new regime and its claim to political legitimacy A brief exposition of two versions of the manual follows. One was issued in 1936 at a time when the royalist threat remained, although diminished The second, a revised manual, issued in 1948, appeared when the royalis influence was again being felt both in public discourse and in political circles. Thousands were distributed to the provinces for the edification of officials and literate local notables. As official publications, they present the state orthodoxy of the time. In the first manual, Siam is said to no longer be an absolute monarchy but a system of democracy, which is described as a "government of the citizens and by the citizens [phonlameuang] so rawing on, but reworking, the familial metaphor of the nation propagated by Vajiravudh, the nation is described as "one big family'.81 Readers are told that the security of the nation is in the minds of each person. In a revised edition, published a year later, a rationale for the manual is given: In every country that has government in accordance with constitutional democracy the people have a duty to study and know their rights and duties so as to be able to act as a good citizens. 82 The manual, the reader is informed, was therefore published to assist citizens to be "persons who love the nation, religion, king and constitution' 83
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